remanded

American  

[ri-man-did] / rɪˈmæn dɪd /

adjective

1. sent back or consigned again, as for revision.

   A remanded proposal that fails to achieve a 60% majority of votes when reconsidered shall be removed from further consideration.

2. Law.

   1. relating to or being a case sent back to a lower court from which it was appealed.

      We trust that the facts of the parties' relationship will become clearer during the remanded hearing.

   2. (of a prisoner or accused person) sent back into custody, as to await further proceedings.

      A remanded person awaiting trial at the city’s central prison has complained of overcrowding and poor sanitation.

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verb

1. the simple past tense and past participle of remand.

Other Word Forms

• unremanded adjective

Etymology

Origin of remanded

remand ( def. ) + -ed ² ( def. )

Example Sentences

They have both been remanded in custody to appear before Luton Magistrates' Court on Monday.

From BBC • Apr. 5, 2026

A source following the case, speaking on condition of anonymity, said the man in his early twenties from a Paris suburb had been charged with "terrorist criminal conspiracy" and remanded in custody.

From Barron's • Apr. 1, 2026

Police arrested the three minors over the course of the past few days and they have been remanded in custody.

From Barron's • Apr. 1, 2026

He was remanded into custody as the process to extradite him to France begins, and is due to appear at Westminster Magistrates' Court.

From BBC • Mar. 30, 2026

He was led away to be locked in Martin’s museum—in what used to be the sacristy and was now the island’s makeshift jail cell—until he could be remanded to police on the mainland.

From "Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children" by Ransom Riggs

Related Words

• delayed
• negotiated
• postponed